When a photo or video from your story is visible on a hashtag or location page, you'll see the name of that page when you look at who's seen your story. From there, you can tap x to the right of the page to hide your story from it... See More

Anyone signed into the Instagram app can view photos or videos on someone's public profile. If you'd like to make sure that only approved followers cansee your child's posts, we suggest setting your posts to private... See More

If your posts are set to public, anyone will be able to see your profile by visiting instagram.com/[your username] on the web. If your posts are set to private, your photos will be visible only to people logged into Instagram who you've approved to follow you... See More

If someone with a private profile shares a photo or video to a social network (like Twitter, Facebook and so on) using Instagram, the image will be visible on that network and the permalink will be active. In other words, the photo will be publicly accessible by anyone who has access to the image's direct link/URL... See More

If your photos and videos are public, anyone cansee them and the person you tagged will get a notification. If your photos and videos are private, only people following you cansee the photo or video... See More

If your account is set to private and you add a hashtag to your post, the post won't appear publicly on the corresponding hashtag page. Only your approved followers will be able to see your posts on hashtag pages or in Instagram Direct messages... See More